Health and the Sociology of Emotions

Introduction (Veronica James, University of Nottingham; and Jonathan Gabe, Royal Holloway, University of London).
<p>Theoretical Issues.</p>
<p>1. Biomedicine, holistic health and the emotionally reflexive body in "late" modernity (Gillian Bendelow and Simon Williams, University of Warwick).</p>
<p>2. C. Wright Mills meets Prozac: the social emotions approach to an understanding of health and illness (Margot Lyon, Australian National University, Canberra).</p>
<p>Methodology.</p>
<p>3. Plans, intentions and emotions: reflections on a methodological problem encountered in a study of teenage pregnancy (Andrew Finlay, Dorothy Whittington, Nicola Shaw and Monica McWilliams, Universities of Dublin and Ulster; Northern Health and Social Service Board).</p>
<p>4. Is there a reciprocal relationship between emotions as expressed in first person fieldwork accounts and the sociology of emotion? (Liz Young and Ray Lee, Royal Holloway, University of London).</p>
<p>Social Construction.</p>
<p>5. Emotional labour, order and emotional power in care assistant work (Geraldine Lee–Treweek, University of Manchester).</p>
<p>6. Social construction of emotion and health promotion: the case of nursing (Pam Smith and Abigail Masterson, RCN Institute of Advanced Nursing Education).</p>
<p>7. Trust, uncertainty and consumerist models of health care delivery (Deborah Lupton, University of Western Sydney).</p>
<p>8. Exploring emotional expression in medical examinations: a transcript–based analysis (Bill Yoels, University of Alabama at Birmingham).</p>